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0. M. OOMSTOOK.

WHIP SNAP.

No. 354,395. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES M. COMSTOGK, OF WINDSOR, NEW YORK.

WHIP-SNAP.

tPECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,395, dated December 14, 1886.

Application filed September 11, 1886. Serial No. 213,300.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES M. COMSTOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Windsor, in the county of Brooine and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vhip-Snaps; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th rough out the several views.

The object of my invention is to provide a snap for use 011 a whip, which may be readily attached after the whip has been used and worn, without taking the whip to the shop to have it braided on. Itis more especially fitted for use on thread-covered whips; but may be also used on leather or any cover which has a yielding surface.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the top of the whip and snap as they have heretofore been made. Fig. 2 shows my new device for joining the whip and snap. Fig. 3 shows the snap drawninto the coupling device. Fig. 4 shows the top of a whip with the snap put on by means of my device.

\Vhen the whip is made, the thread with which it is covered is turned over at the end and formed into a loop, as shown at a, Fig. 1. The snap is also made with a loop, I), and the snap is fastened on the whip by looping them together, as shown in Fig. 1.

If before the snap is worn out it is removed and a new one put on, it can be put on in the same way; but in the majority of cases the whip is used until both snap and loop are gone.

My invention has for its objects to provide a snap for whips which can be adjusted upon the whip by any one without loss of time or need of especial skill, which when so adjusted does not interfere with the flexibility-of that portion of the whip to which it is attached, and which obviates the necessity for plaiting the base of the snap to prevent the raveling at that point.

My improvement consists in attaching to the larger end of the snap A a spiral spring, B, made from fine spring-wire wound on a conical mandrel, so that one end shall be of less diameter than the other.

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The snap is drawn tightly into the smaller end of the spring B, as shown in Fig. 3, and in this form is furnished to the customers. Then when a snap is needed on the whip the larger end of the spring is turned down on the whip, as shown in Fig. 4, the spiral spring forming a screw socket, which draws down firmly on the whip. This will not loosen or whip off in use, and the fine elastic wire does not interfere with the uniform spring of the whip. To do away with any tendency orpossiloility of the spring opening at the joint between the snap and whip, I knot on the wire, on one side, a cord or thread, (shown at 0, Figs. 2 and 3,) extending down the spring past the end of the whip, thereby preventing any extension of the spring, but not interfering with its firm hold or its elasticity. Over this spiral spring may be drawn athin rubber tube to cover the spring, and this also adds to the grip of the wire upon the body of the whip.

This rubber cover is not shown in the draw- 7 ings; butits construction and operation will be readily understood.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a whip assume the shape of the whip and sink a thread into the covering of the same, said socket be ing provided with a conical end adapted to hold said enlarged end of said snap and a non-elastic flexible connection between the convolutions of the said conical end and the convolutions of the body of the said socket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES M. ooMsrooK.

Witnesses: I I l A. L. PINE, J ULIA SHAW. 

